What Does Luke 7:10 Mean in the King James?
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word reaches the house before Jesus does, and the servant is already sound.
THE MEANING
Wholeness is visible in the servant’s body: he is found healthy after the messengers return. The speaker does not have to be physically beside the one receiving the healing for restoration to be real.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that healing depends on the healer standing beside the sick person: the servant is found whole after the messengers return.
THE ROOT
ὑγιαίνοντα
hygiainonta
GROWS FROM
ὑγιής
hygiēs
Sound, healthy, unimpaired.
The Greek word translated “whole” means being healthy or sound. This word family also describes “wholesome” words, joining bodily health with speech that is sound.
ALSO GROWS
hygiainō: To be in good health; to be sound.
ὑγιαίνω
This is the verb family behind the servant’s condition: he is found restored to soundness.
hygiainousin: Sound, healthy; used of words in 1 Timothy 6:3.
ὑγιαίνονσιν
The same Greek word family describes both the servant’s bodily wholeness and words that are sound.
THE PATTERN
A word can carry restoration beyond the distance between its speaker and its recipient.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.THE THREAD
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;“Whole” in Luke and “wholesome” in 1 Timothy come from the same Greek word family, ὑγιαίνω (hygiainō), meaning to be sound or healthy. The same image names both a restored body and words that are sound.
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